The singular form of "as" is "a", which usually means "the (female)". The word for "ace" (the card) is "ás".

Is there a difference in pronunciation? I was going to have the playing card as one of my choices, but there was no option for "second and seventh" (or whatever it was) choices, so I figured I'd stick to a single choice, as none of the other multiples seemed to be right.

Thanks I was wondering how an emphasis would change with a word of only two letters. I'm trying to say it according to your note, and finding it hard to make it feel right in my mouth, but I don't know a whole lot about the sound of Portugese on the whole. Is the "s" sound always pronounced with that "shh" feeling to it, and how does it differ from the "sh" sound in English? Sorry to keep asking all these questions, I'm just curious.

It's like in Polish, where "sz" is pronounced more or less like the English "sh", but there's another sound, an "s" with a little accent mark over it, which is pronounced similarly, but with the tongue a little more relaxed, and the air going over the top of it rather than more along the front. English speakers always seem to have a hard time even differentiating between the sounds, though, to say nothing of trying to duplicate them. I wonder if this is something similar?

Is the "s" sound always pronounced with that "shh" feeling to it, and how does it differ from the "sh" sound in English?

It can be pronounced as "z" if it's in the middle of a word between two vowels, "sh"/"shh"[1] if it's in the end of a word or (usually) before another consonant, or "ss" if it's two s's together or at the beginning of a word. Random: The letter "x" is more complicated. It can be "sh"/"shh", "z", or "ks", and there's no way to know which to use unless you have good instinct.

Rule 1: No pooftas. Rule 2: No maltreating the theists, IF, anyone is watching. Rule 3: No pooftas. Rule 4: I do not want to see anyone NOT drinking after light out. Rule 5: No pooftas. Rule 6: There is NO...rule 6.

That was precisely my intention. EDIT: Almost forgot:In Portuguese, there's no direct translation for "either". We have "either one" ("qualquer um"), but we use "ou" where you would use "either". Put simply:"Either one or the other." = "Ou um ou o outro."